Cumberland County

Moratoriums and bans

1. May 19, 2026 Millville: Ban. Commissioners voted unanimously to ban data centers citywide; ROI-NJ and News 12 reported the ban ended a promoted 1.4 GW campus, though the mayor said it was not aimed at a specific proposal. (ROI-NJ, May 20, 2026; News 12 New Jersey, May 20, 2026; New Jersey 101.5, May 21, 2026)

Updates, newest first

1. Sept. 22, 2026 DataOne / Nebius AI data center, Vineland · The DEP issued DataOne an administrative order and a $1,072,000 civil administrative penalty assessment, finding after a July 29 inspection that it had installed and operated 62 natural gas engines used to generate electricity without a preconstruction permit or operating certificate; the order allows DataOne to request a hearing. DataOne told WHYY the generators were temporary, that it disagreed with the determination and that it would apply for the permits. (New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Enforcement, Sept. 22, 2026; WHYY, Sept. 22, 2026)
2. Aug. 18, 2026 DataOne / Nebius AI data center, Vineland · The Vineland Planning Board approved the second-phase site plan 8-1. (WHYY, Aug. 18, 2026)
3. Aug. 12, 2026 DataOne / Nebius AI data center, Vineland · WHYY reported the city had issued two stop-construction orders on work on the LNG tank and fuel cell units, alleging the work started before city approval; DataOne said the notices covered equipment placement under the approved site plan. (WHYY, Aug. 12, 2026)
4. Aug. 5, 2026 DataOne / Nebius AI data center, Vineland · At a six-hour planning board hearing, DataOne presented a second phase powered mainly by Bloom fuel cells, after dropping a plan for 32 gas engines and six diesel generators. (WHYY, Aug. 6, 2026)
5. May 21, 2026 A1 Data Center campus, Millville · New Jersey 101.5 reported officials said no plan had been submitted, and that the 66 acres and up to 2.9 million square feet came from the project's promotional website. (New Jersey 101.5, May 21, 2026)
6. May 19, 2026 A1 Data Center campus, Millville · Millville's commissioners voted unanimously, per WHYY, to ban data centers citywide; ROI-NJ and News 12 reported the ban ended the A1 proposal, while the mayor told New Jersey 101.5 it was not aimed at any one project. (ROI-NJ, May 20, 2026; News 12 New Jersey, May 20, 2026; WHYY, May 27, 2026; New Jersey 101.5, May 21, 2026)
7. May 19, 2026 Millville: Ban · Commissioners voted unanimously to ban data centers citywide; ROI-NJ and News 12 reported the ban ended a promoted 1.4 GW campus, though the mayor said it was not aimed at a specific proposal. (ROI-NJ, May 20, 2026; News 12 New Jersey, May 20, 2026; New Jersey 101.5, May 21, 2026)
8. March 5, 2025 DataOne / Nebius AI data center, Vineland · Nebius announced a build-to-suit New Jersey data center expandable to 300 MW, with first capacity as early as summer 2025; DCD identified the site as Vineland and the builder as DataOne. (Nebius Group N.V., March 5, 2025; DatacenterDynamics, March 6, 2025)
9. July 1, 2024 DataOne / Nebius AI data center, Vineland · The Courier-Post reported a concept for six two-story data center buildings totaling more than 2.64 million square feet in the private East Vineland industrial park, with no end user yet. (Courier-Post (via AOL), July 1, 2024)

Statewide

Next New Jersey Program – AI (A4558/S3432, P.L.2024, c.49, signed July 25, 2024): up to $500 million in state tax credits, run by NJEDA, for AI businesses and large-scale AI data centers that create at least 100 jobs paying 120% of the county median salary, invest at least $100 million and stay 10 years. NJEDA's board approved the program and its rules on March 12, 2025; its award list shows one approval, $250 million to CoreWeave for Kenilworth on Nov. 12, 2025, and marks the program closed in fiscal 2026. (New Jersey Economic Development Authority, July 25, 2024; New Jersey Economic Development Authority, March 12, 2025; New Jersey Economic Development Authority, Nov. 12, 2025; New Jersey Economic Development Authority, Aug. 2026) End Data Center Tax Credits Act (S4390/A5165, P.L.2026, c.77, approved Aug. 27, 2026; Senate 35-4 and Assembly 74-4 on June 30): takes the $250 million still uncommitted out of the Next New Jersey AI program and returns it to the Aspire and Emerge programs, per the Senate Budget Committee statement; the CoreWeave award already made is not affected. Bloomberg Law reported NJEDA had paused new applications on June 1 for an internal review. (New Jersey Legislature, Aug. 27, 2026; New Jersey Legislature (Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee), June 24, 2026; New Jersey Assembly Democrats, Aug. 28, 2026; Bloomberg Law, June 24, 2026) Large data center electricity law (A796/S731, P.L.2026, c.32, approved July 7, 2026; final votes Senate 27-11 and Assembly 59-18 on June 30): within 12 months the BPU must set, by order for each electric utility, standards for serving large data centers (a size threshold no higher than 50 MW, with co-owned or shared-site facilities counted together), so that other customers do not pay their grid or stranded costs, data centers have incentives to supply new clean power or storage of their own, and they are curtailed before homes in emergencies; each utility must then file a data center rate class and tariff within 180 days of the order. Senate floor amendments added a 10-year financial guarantee covering at least 85% of the supply requested and an exemption from certain provisions for data centers a utility approved for service before the law took effect. (New Jersey Legislature, July 7, 2026; New Jersey Legislature, July 7, 2026; New Jersey Legislature, June 18, 2026; New Jersey Monitor, July 7, 2026) An earlier version (A5462/S4307 in the 2024-2025 session), which would have had the BPU set a tariff for users drawing more than 100 MW, passed the Legislature but was pocket-vetoed when Gov. Phil Murphy left office in January 2026. (New Jersey Business & Industry Association, Jan. 21, 2026) Energy and water reporting (S3379/A4096, P.L.2026, c.75, approved Aug. 27, 2026; Senate 39-0 and Assembly 76-3 on final passage): data center owners and operators must report twice a year to the BPU on overall energy use, the energy that goes to cooling and to computing equipment, the most water used in a day and where it comes from, and on-site and backup power. (New Jersey Legislature, Aug. 27, 2026; Office of the Governor of New Jersey, Aug. 27, 2026) Executive actions: Gov. Mikie Sherrill's Executive Order No. 2 (signed Jan. 20, 2026) directed the BPU, among other things, to address load growth from data centers, as the BPU described it; her May 27, 2026 data center plan set four goals (fair-share energy rules, energy and water reporting, statewide community benefits agreement standards, prevailing wage and local trades). On Aug. 25, 2026 the Department of Community Affairs sent towns community benefits agreement guidance by Local Finance Notice, and EDA, DEP and BPU set up technical assistance teams. (New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, March 5, 2026; New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Feb. 4, 2026; Office of the Governor of New Jersey, May 27, 2026; Office of the Governor of New Jersey, Aug. 27, 2026) Utility large-load tariffs: none of the sources reviewed showed a BPU docket for a data center or large-load tariff at PSE&G, JCP&L, Atlantic City Electric or Rockland Electric (utility filings under c.32 are due within 180 days of the BPU's standards order). In an Aug. 13, 2026 report release the BPU said it had started implementing the new law's requirements that data centers bring their own generation or accept lower-priority service. PSEG said in its second-quarter 2025 earnings call that large-load interconnection requests had reached 9.4 GW, about 90% or more from data centers, and that it expected only 10% to 20% of them to come online. (New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Aug. 13, 2026; New Jersey Legislature, July 7, 2026; DatacenterDynamics, Aug. 18, 2025) PJM capacity prices: the BPU reported that PJM's auction for the 2026/2027 delivery year cleared at the cap of $329.17/MW-day across the region, after the 2025/2026 auction's $269.92/MW-day (an 833% increase); in February 2026 the BPU said data center demand growth in PJM had contributed to high electricity rates. (New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, July 23, 2025; New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Feb. 4, 2026) Pinelands: the Pinelands Commission told a committee on March 27, 2026 that it had received no data center applications; under the Comprehensive Management Plan data centers are not permitted in the Preservation Area District or Special Agricultural Production Areas, and other management areas leave very limited room for them. (New Jersey Pinelands Commission, March 27, 2026) Local bans: counts differ by source and date. The New Jersey Monitor reported nearly three dozen towns with bans or restrictions (Aug. 20, 2026); the advocacy group Climate Revolution Action Network called Jackson the 38th town to ban data centers (Aug. 25); NJ.com put the number at roughly 100 towns (Oct. 16). No statewide moratorium bill was found among enacted laws; NJ Spotlight News reported a Pinelands Alliance petition asking for a three-year moratorium. (New Jersey Monitor, Aug. 20, 2026; Insider NJ (press release from Climate Revolution Action Network), Aug. 25, 2026; NJ.com (via Yahoo News), Oct. 16, 2026; NJ Spotlight News, July 21, 2026) New Jersey data centers →